Colombian officials say top FARC leader killed

BOGOTA, Colombia - The top leader of Colombia's main rebel group, Alfonso Cano, was killed Friday in a military bombing attack in the country's southwest, two senior Colombian security officials said.

"The fingerprints matched," said one of the officials. He said Cano was killed in "a standard military operation."

The officials agreed to confirm Cano's death only if they were not further identified because they were not authorized to disclose the information.

Cano, head of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, had been the top target of Colombian authorities since September 2010, when they killed the insurgency's military chief, Mono Jojoy, also in a bombing raid.

A $5 million dollar reward had been out for Cano, a Bogota intellectual who took command of Latin America's last remaining rebel army after the 2008 death of its co-founder, Manuel Marulanda.